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Title: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Unorthodox on March 17, 2016, 03:04:00 PM

Bah humbug. 

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 17, 2016, 03:07:36 PM

I have on a green t-shirt, but that's by accident.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Unorthodox on March 17, 2016, 04:37:55 PM

Mom always made us eat corned beef and caggage. 

It was a day I would end up going hungry. 

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 17, 2016, 04:47:08 PM

Yeah; for me it was just the risk of getting punched on the arm at school...

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Lorizael on March 17, 2016, 04:47:46 PM

No, and I legitimately don't know what this holiday is supposed to be about.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: ColdWizard on March 17, 2016, 04:48:55 PM

Quote from: Lorizael on March 17, 2016, 04:47:46 PM

No, and I legitimately don't know what this holiday is supposed to be about.

Drinking beer and/or claiming Irish ancestry, as far as I can tell.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 17, 2016, 04:49:49 PM

...And punching other boys on the arm if they don't wear green to school...

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: ColdWizard on March 17, 2016, 06:46:26 PM

Quote from: BUncle on March 17, 2016, 04:49:49 PM

...And punching other boys on the arm if they don't wear green to school...

That didn't happen to me much but I may have actually owned something green back then. By high school I think they had started introducing zero tolerance policies and no one wanted to get suspended for something as trivial as St. Patrick's Day.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Unorthodox on March 17, 2016, 08:08:57 PM

Don't really know why some saints have a "day" and the rest get rolled into All Saints Day.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 17, 2016, 08:09:39 PM

Too many saints.  Really.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Unorthodox on March 17, 2016, 08:10:46 PM

Right, but why Patrick, Valentines, and Walpurgis?  (probably others, but the ones off the top of my head)

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Unorthodox on March 17, 2016, 08:11:23 PM

Nick.  Can't forget Nick. 

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Valka on March 17, 2016, 09:09:08 PM

I don't celebrate it any more. During elementary school there was a custom that you could pinch anyone not wearing green. So I made the effort back then (the year I opted for green socks was painful as most kids didn't notice them).

I do have Irish ancestry on my mother's side, though. I love Irish music and dance (as long as it's not Riverdance on a neverending loop).

Today will not be spent doing anything remotely "St. Paddy-ish."

That said, since I love cute smileys, here is my St. Patrick's greeting to everyone here:

(http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/clovercatwave.gif) (http://www.millan.net)

(http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/stpatdancer.gif) (http://www.millan.net)

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 17, 2016, 09:29:35 PM

Pornhub: Website Says 'Leprechaun' Searches Jumped More Than 8,000 Percent St. Patrick's Day 2015

The adult film website released statistics on searches made on St. Patrick's Day last year. "Believe it or not, some people do search 'Leprechaun' throughout the year," the website added.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Rusty Edge on March 17, 2016, 11:53:13 PM

I said "Yay beer!" because I had a Guinness with dinner.

My paternal ancestry/Y chromosome is Irish, although I was told differently when my grandfather was alive. I've seen the documentation for the D.A.R. and clearly, the paternal sire came from Ireland and served 3 tours with George Washington.

I've since been to Ireland and loved it. I have some nice Irish Rugby Jerseys, but today I'm working in dust and sweat, and not wearing one. As a protestant, St. Patrick loses some luster. I was contrary enough to refuse to wear green to school.

Best part of St. Patrick's Day is that I can find Irish soda bread in the bakery. So Yay beer, Yay bread!

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Lorizael on March 18, 2016, 12:55:28 AM

Quote from: BUncle on March 17, 2016, 04:49:49 PM

...And punching other boys on the arm if they don't wear green to school...

Ah yes, I do remember that. I'm so glad my memory of my childhood is often vague...

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 18, 2016, 12:56:45 AM

Oh heck.  I'd give anything for that to be one of the bad memories.  It hurt, but no big deal.

I never tried to bruise when I was on the giving end of arm-punch games.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Lorizael on March 18, 2016, 01:27:01 AM

Curiously enough, the near-constant background noise of bullying I received during my childhood does not constitute my bad memories. In fact, I can hardly remember that at all; I just have this intellectual knowledge that it happened. (I don't think the bullying didn't affect me. My memories of it are simply vague.) My bad memories are almost always ones in which I (think I) embarrass myself in some way.

Title: Re: Do you celebrate St Patricks day?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 18, 2016, 01:33:19 AM

The pain of getting hit goes away.  The physical pain.  That's all a punch on the arm was.